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Global Media and Information Literacy Week is an annual event observed from 24^th to 31^st October to raise awareness and celebrate the progress achieved towards Media and Information Literacy for all.

During Global Media and Information Literacy Week, stakeholders around the world organize events and UNESCO co-hosts with a Member State the global conference gathering the Media and Information Literacy community.

Media and Information Literacy encompasses various competencies that enable individuals and groups to navigate today¡¯s information and communications environment. It covers a large spectrum of knowledge, skills, attitudes and values to better search, access, critically evaluate, use and contribute to information and media content.

Thereby, Media and Information Literacy enables the purposeful and creative use of digital technology and empowers all users through enhancing their knowledge of their online and digital rights, as well of the ethical issues surrounding access to and use of information. Media and information literate citizens are equipped to engage more effectively in dialogue, freedom of expression, access to information, gender equality, diversity, peace, and sustainable development.

Media and Information Literacy is key to address the challenges of the 21^st century including the proliferation of mis- and disinformation and hate speech, the decline of trust in media and the transformative impact of digital innovations notably Artificial Intelligence. 

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In 2021, the UN General Assembly  to commemorate Global Media and Information Literacy Week, to emphasize the need for factual, timely, targeted, clear, accessible, multilingual and science-based information. The resolution acknowledges that the significant digital divide and data disparities between countries and within them, can be addressed in part by enhancing people¡¯s competencies to seek, receive and share information in the digital realm.

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